Deportee charged with St Thomas murders
March 17, 2006
A 39-YEAR-OLD deportee, who has been in custody since February 27, has been formally charged by detectives probing the murder of six family members in St. Thomas.
Michael Alexander McLean, of Red Hills district in St. Thomas, was charged yesterday following the conclusion of a high-level meeting between Kent Pantry, Q.C., the Director of Public Prosecutions, and a team of senior detectives led by Acting Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause.
The Gleaner has learnt that the case will be transferred from St. Thomas to the Home Circuit Court, downtown Kingston, for trial.
On February 26, the bodies of Patrice George McCool and her children Sean Chin Jr., nine and Lloyd George McCool, three, were discovered with their throats slashed. At another home in the district, the bodies of two other family members, Terry-Ann Mohammed and her son Jesse O'Gilve, nine, were found.
BODY FOUND
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
